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Belden, Nebraska

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Precinct 20. It lies in ZIP code area 68717. The Survey maps it on the Belden quadrangle. 113 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,558 feet above sea level.

Belden within Cedar County

Population over time

2 figures

Belden fell from 115 to 113 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010115
2020113-2 (-2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

15 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Belden between 2001 and 2020, burning about 119 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use15 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
5 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
6 May 2001Smokingunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
10 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
9 April 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
8 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named
7 April 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
22 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cedar County

Storms near this place

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belden in 16 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 10 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1999Tornado (F0)Belden$15,000A barn and farm equipment were destroyed.
August 1993Thunderstorm WindBelden$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds damaged outbuildings and trees.
March 2026HailBelden-Public report of hail measured at 2.50 inch in diameter received via an image on social media.
July 2025HailBelden-Public report of hail estimated up to quarter sized mixed in with dime sized hail.
April 2024Flash FloodBelden-The Cedar County EM reported water over Highway 20 just to the east of Belden.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindBelden-Fire Department reported that a manufactured home was knocked off of its temporary supports and the roof was destroyed.
March 2019FloodBelden-Highway 20 is closed between 556TH Avenue and Nebraska 57 due to flooding.
June 2005Flash FloodBelden-Heavy rainfall of 1 to 3 inches in a few hours caused flash flooding near Belden. Water and mud covered several roads.
April 2015HailBelden-no account filed
May 2005HailBelden-no account filed
August 2005HailBelden-no account filed
June 2003HailBelden-no account filed
June 2003HailBelden-no account filed
July 2002HailBelden-no account filed
June 2001HailBelden-no account filed
June 1999HailBelden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cedar County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Laurel6.3 miles9
Coleridge6.4 miles9
Randolph8.3 miles9
Magnet14.3 miles9
Hartington14.8 miles9
Pleasant Valley18.1 miles9
Bow Valley20.9 miles9
Obert21.3 miles10

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on BeldenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3097310The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 827291. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.